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qwen2.5:3b

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

nous-hermes2:latest

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 87
Quality Score
67 vs 60

Hardware

qwen2.5:3b nous-hermes2:latest
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:3b nous-hermes2:latest
Tokens/sec47.215.9
TTFT168 ms345 ms
Load time0.5 s0.4 s
Memory usage4.0 GB6.6 GB
Memory %13%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed
27/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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